Retirement: a medical check-up for exposed employees

The employer will have to inform the occupational health service of the next departure or retirement of an employee who is or has been subject to enhanced medical care.

Who are the employees concerned?

The new medical examination concerns:

• employees who benefit or have benefited from enhanced individual monitoring of their health status;
• or those who have received specific medical follow-up due to their exposure to one or more particular risks prior to the implementation of the enhanced individual follow-up device.

In order to benefit from it, the employee must be exposed during his activity to risks affecting his health or safety: asbestos, ionizing radiation, lead, carcinogens, certain chemicals, hyperbaric risk, work at a height, etc. This visit makes it possible to establish a state of the art of exposures to one or more occupational risk factors and to determine better post-professional medical follow-up in the event of outbreaks of diseases delayed in time.

What's the procedure?

The employer must inform the occupational health service as soon as it becomes aware of the departure or retirement of the employee and inform the employee concerned of this without delay.

If the employer does not inform the occupational health service, the employee may, during the month preceding his retirement, request to benefit from this visit directly with this service. He must inform his employer.

The occupational doctor must determine whether the employee does indeed meet the conditions for the medical examination and organize it if these conditions are met. At the end of the visit, he must draw up a document setting out the state of play and, in the event of the employee's exposure to occupational risk factors, he may recommend, where appropriate, post-professional supervision in conjunction with the employee's doctor.